Inner life essays on transforming poor performance into positional dominion.

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Character Cultivation Is Critical

It was my second month at the job, and we’ve all just returned from too short of a holiday break. Psychological warfare and a battle of wills ignites 10 minutes into the first meeting...

Altitude

Those who live in the mountains and are intimate with it, know they must adjust themselves to the variable, new terrain.

Fervor

Your deepest contributions flourish once you refuse to compromise the truth of your natural and unique expression.

Devotion

Commitment reveals an open door to limitless potential. Relentless candor with compassion feeds loyalty.

Visceral

Feeling and emotion are power sources of transformative living, rooted in your body.Your brain is only one realm of material sense-making, only one o...

Acumen

Striving to validate, as a first-response, prevents discovery and surprise to bloom from the practice of discernment.Discernment is the refined activ...

Verge Point

Gravity is a sharp and loving enforcer of reality.It brings uncommon rest, while pushing toward fulfillment. Gravity demands that your most rooted, a...

The Inner Drop

When you are forced to self-reflect, the cost has been paid through the protocol of direct experience. The peeling off of pretense and assumptive laz...

Presence

Presence is the outward expression of inner ease.It is your pulse point of joyful gravitas. Where you are still-in-movement, primed to spontaneously ...